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- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is always a challenging issue. There are 41 Bills on the list to be dealt with during this session. Many of those staff are specialist and are involved heavily in very intricate work on a number of these Bills. Deputy Bannon mentioned the insurance Bill. The heads have not yet been cleared but that is due for later this year.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy O'Dea will be well aware that if that were to happen, approval would have to be given by the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Minister briefed Cabinet this morning and has made public comments on this already. Obviously, IAG has made an offer and the board of Aer Lingus has issued a statement to the effect that it is willing to consider the offer. There is a waiting period now. The...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: The health information Bill to which the Deputy refers is due later in the year. It is fair to say the report deserves further analysis and study. As I stated, it is based on surveys carried out by various organisations. Deputy Martin conveniently forgets to recognise that, even in the survey, Ireland performs very well by comparison with countries such as France, Belgium and Denmark, and...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----Ireland actually performs very well. We come first in terms of access and appropriate use of medicines, and we are better than average with regard to prevention measures such as vaccination and smoking prevention, which is obviously of interest to the Deputy. Clearly, the survey, for what it is worth, shows that we perform poorly in respect of access and waiting times, as well as in...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: The report warrants some further analysis and discussion. I do not object to its being debated here but we have got a lot to do. I am not objecting to it now but the study demands some analysis. Perhaps later on, we will be happy to debate it; it deserves a proper set of replies from here.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: The legislation is being reformed in respect of the question of direct provision. I expect that the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister of State will bring the heads of the Bill dealing with the question of a single procedure before the Government in the next few weeks. As Deputy Adams will be aware, there is a working group, under Mr. Justice Bryan McMahon, looking at all of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Those in opposition will find that outlining such priorities is not always as simple as it sounds.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: They can lecture us from the opposition benches about what should be done. Did I not hear Deputy Adams saying last night that he would give back all of the water contributions, amounting to €3 million?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams would want to get his figures right.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday, a very appropriate and moving Holocaust memorial ceremony was conducted in the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor of this city on behalf of the people of Ireland in respect of those who were murdered in Auschwitz during its obnoxious and horrendous existence and those survivors who were freed on this day 70 years ago.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday's ceremony was a moving, fitting and appropriate recognition and commemoration of what was a truly terrible time for humanity worldwide.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 20, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 21, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the agreements between the European Union and Canada, the Republic of Moldova, Georgia and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, back from committee; No. 49, statements on European Council, Brussels, pursuant to Standing Order...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams raised issues he has raised before. I know he has to put on his-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----public political face when he does his orations to the people. He will appreciate, however, that emigrants are returning to Ireland with new experience to avail of new job opportunities here. He recognises that unemployment has fallen from 15.2% to 10.6%. He also knows that unemployment lists have fallen consecutively for 30 months.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: He does recognise that interest rates have fallen from 15% to an average of 1.25%. He also recognises that while there is ferocious demand for housing at the moment, property prices are beginning to rise. He recognises a much stronger public confidence, as is evident in so many sectors. However, as I have said openly, that recovery is fragile. It cannot be fully completed if there is any...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: If the Deputy wants a detailed response from the Minister for Health, he will get it in respect of many of the things he has commented on here. In respect of the Department I have myself, which is the Department of the Taoiseach, there were 44 commitments entered into in respect of the programme for Government and 40 and four in the revised statement issued last July. Three quarters of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: Ireland comes joint first when it comes to access and appropriate use of medicines and performs better than average on prevention, such as vaccination and smoking prevention.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: We perform poorly in access and waiting times as well as patient rights and information. I think that has been acknowledged and accepted by the Minister, who is working at that now. In many ways, the survey confirms that the Irish health system is actually very good once one can get access to it. That has always been the challenge here. I suppose that, at the end of the survey, it is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----the establishment of the hospital groups, which will eventually move into hospital trusts, the progress that was eventually made on the national children's hospital, which will go for planning permission as one of the most major pieces of infrastructure in the country for very many years, and of course the difficult enactment of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act. There are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Enda Kenny: In respect of-----